Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 78 63
Rank change year-on-year -43 -15 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,404 1,538 3,672
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.56% 3.64% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 3.92% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 963 1,070 2,764
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £59,375 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,238 39,252 82,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.66% 92.86% 85.61%
Number of salaries quoted 41,831 22,645 59,684
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,516 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -38 1,275 £77,500 +3.33% 592
London +5 682 £87,500 +2.94% 265
Work from Home -18 611 £70,000 -2.77% 338
UK excluding London -110 599 £67,500 -3.57% 381
North of England -27 283 £69,310 -3.74% 116
North West -23 136 £70,000 -3.45% 71
South East -102 127 £72,500 +7.41% 120
Yorkshire -48 96 £69,310 -4.40% 23
South West -95 57 £58,750 -14.26% 44
Midlands -72 52 £67,500 +3.85% 50
North East -2 51 £65,000 +30.00% 22
East of England -14 41 £60,100 +4.52% 27
West Midlands -46 32 £72,500 +3.57% 25
Scotland -83 32 £62,500 -17.10% 16
East Midlands -59 19 £67,250 +5.49% 25
Wales -30 9 £53,171 -20.64% 6
Northern Ireland -37 7 £62,500 +13.64% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.21%) Confluence
3 16 (1.14%) Apache
4 15 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (1.00%) IIS
6 13 (0.93%) JBoss
6 13 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.64%) CMS
8 8 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.28%) Appian
9 4 (0.28%) Camunda
9 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
10 3 (0.21%) nginx
10 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.14%) Drupal
Applications
1 12 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.50%) Maya
4 6 (0.43%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.071%) Actimize
6 1 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.071%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.071%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.071%) Quorum
6 1 (0.071%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.071%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.071%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 755 (53.77%) AWS
2 573 (40.81%) Azure
3 295 (21.01%) GCP
4 240 (17.09%) Serverless
5 149 (10.61%) SaaS
6 122 (8.69%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
8 118 (8.40%) GitHub
9 107 (7.62%) Amazon S3
10 83 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
10 83 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 73 (5.20%) Amazon SQS
12 67 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
13 58 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
14 56 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 54 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
16 47 (3.35%) OpenShift
17 45 (3.21%) Datadog
18 44 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
19 43 (3.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.20%) Broadband
2 14 (1.00%) Network Security
3 13 (0.93%) HTTP
4 9 (0.64%) DNS
5 7 (0.50%) AMQP
5 7 (0.50%) Firewall
5 7 (0.50%) Internet
5 7 (0.50%) VPN
6 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.36%) DHCP
7 5 (0.36%) MQTT
7 5 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.28%) LTE
8 4 (0.28%) SNMP
8 4 (0.28%) WAN
9 3 (0.21%) Modbus
10 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.14%) RFID
10 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (13.68%) NoSQL
2 177 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
3 144 (10.26%) MongoDB
4 101 (7.19%) SQL Server
5 76 (5.41%) MySQL
6 65 (4.63%) DynamoDB
6 65 (4.63%) Relational Database
7 46 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
9 34 (2.42%) BigQuery
9 34 (2.42%) Redis
10 27 (1.92%) Big Data
11 21 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (1.50%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.14%) Pinecone
13 15 (1.07%) Power BI
14 11 (0.78%) Data Lake
14 11 (0.78%) DB2
15 9 (0.64%) Tableau
16 7 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 191 (13.60%) Git
2 128 (9.12%) Jenkins
3 125 (8.90%) GitLab
4 50 (3.56%) JIRA
5 49 (3.49%) TeamCity
6 40 (2.85%) Cucumber
7 34 (2.42%) JUnit
8 33 (2.35%) CircleCI
9 31 (2.21%) Cypress.io
10 25 (1.78%) Selenium
11 19 (1.35%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.28%) Mockito
13 17 (1.21%) Maven
13 17 (1.21%) Vite
14 16 (1.14%) Claude Code
15 14 (1.00%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.57%) JMeter
16 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
17 7 (0.50%) NUnit
General
1 407 (28.99%) Finance
2 330 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 153 (10.90%) Banking
4 108 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 94 (6.70%) Law
6 89 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 67 (4.77%) Retail
9 48 (3.42%) Telecoms
10 47 (3.35%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.64%) Back Office
12 22 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.42%) Advertising
14 18 (1.28%) Billing
14 18 (1.28%) Legal
15 15 (1.07%) Marketing
16 13 (0.93%) Front Office
16 13 (0.93%) Games
17 11 (0.78%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 473 (33.69%) Developer
2 385 (27.42%) Senior
3 268 (19.09%) Software Engineer
4 209 (14.89%) Architect
5 183 (13.03%) Lead
6 121 (8.62%) Senior Developer
7 115 (8.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 111 (7.91%) Java Developer
9 95 (6.77%) Java Engineer
10 93 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 88 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
12 70 (4.99%) .NET Developer
13 58 (4.13%) Software Developer
14 54 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 53 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
16 51 (3.63%) Lead Developer
17 42 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
18 41 (2.92%) C# Developer
19 40 (2.85%) Java Software Engineer
19 40 (2.85%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (22.08%) React
2 284 (20.23%) .NET
3 278 (19.80%) RESTful
4 229 (16.31%) Node.js
5 218 (15.53%) Spring
6 212 (15.10%) REST
7 198 (14.10%) Spring Boot
8 174 (12.39%) Kafka
9 108 (7.69%) AngularJS
10 91 (6.48%) gRPC
11 82 (5.84%) .NET Core
12 78 (5.56%) HTML
13 70 (4.99%) CSS
14 67 (4.77%) RabbitMQ
15 64 (4.56%) Vue
16 61 (4.34%) .NET Framework
17 58 (4.13%) ASP.NET
18 54 (3.85%) OAuth
19 52 (3.70%) Django
19 52 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 413 (29.42%) Cloud Native
2 246 (17.52%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (7.62%) Product Ownership
4 89 (6.34%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (3.28%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (3.21%) Over-the-Top Content
9 38 (2.71%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.64%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.85%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.71%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.71%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
14 21 (1.50%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.28%) Public Cloud
16 17 (1.21%) Web3
17 16 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.06%) Linux
2 41 (2.92%) Windows
3 20 (1.42%) Unix
4 15 (1.07%) Android
5 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.36%) CentOS
6 5 (0.36%) Debian
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.071%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (49.93%) CI/CD
2 550 (39.17%) Agile
3 543 (38.68%) DevOps
4 520 (37.04%) Software Engineering
5 387 (27.56%) Containerisation
6 314 (22.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 306 (21.79%) Mentoring
8 291 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
9 290 (20.66%) Event-Driven
10 282 (20.09%) Test Automation
11 272 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 262 (18.66%) AI
13 239 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
14 179 (12.75%) Computer Science
15 173 (12.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 169 (12.04%) Scrum
17 158 (11.25%) Coaching
18 155 (11.04%) Clean Code
18 155 (11.04%) Technical Leadership
19 149 (10.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 454 (32.34%) Java
2 397 (28.28%) Python
3 288 (20.51%) SQL
4 261 (18.59%) JavaScript
5 251 (17.88%) C#
6 218 (15.53%) TypeScript
7 135 (9.62%) Go
8 51 (3.63%) Scala
9 45 (3.21%) PHP
10 43 (3.06%) C++
11 38 (2.71%) Bash
12 33 (2.35%) C
13 30 (2.14%) Ruby
14 21 (1.50%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.35%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.21%) PowerShell
17 16 (1.14%) Rust
17 16 (1.14%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.71%) Groovy
19 9 (0.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 187 (13.32%) Degree
2 137 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 106 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 88 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 57 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 31 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (1.71%) CISSP
11 22 (1.57%) DV Cleared
11 22 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (0.93%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.85%) CISM
15 8 (0.57%) PhD
16 7 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.43%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 5 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (7.05%) QA
2 30 (2.14%) Accessibility
2 30 (2.14%) GDPR
3 26 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (1.85%) PCI DSS
4 22 (1.57%) NIST
5 16 (1.14%) SOC 2
6 11 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.71%) NCSC
8 9 (0.64%) GRC
9 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.43%) IFRS
10 6 (0.43%) WCAG
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.28%) SLA
13 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.21%) SEPA
14 1 (0.071%) EMIR
System Software
1 427 (30.41%) Docker
2 14 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) Firmware
4 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 446 (31.77%) Kubernetes
2 264 (18.80%) Terraform
3 83 (5.91%) Grafana
4 79 (5.63%) Ansible
5 42 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.14%) Argo
7 19 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.28%) Kibana
9 9 (0.64%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.50%) Cilium
10 7 (0.50%) Puppet
11 4 (0.28%) Istio
11 4 (0.28%) Packer
11 4 (0.28%) Rancher
12 3 (0.21%) Nagios
13 2 (0.14%) MIIS
13 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 126 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.56%) Google
3 50 (3.56%) Oracle
4 45 (3.21%) Typelevel
5 24 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 15 (1.07%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.07%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.00%) IBM
8 13 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 13 (0.93%) SAP
9 12 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 11 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.71%) Cisco
11 10 (0.71%) Databricks
12 9 (0.64%) Splunk
13 8 (0.57%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.50%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.43%) F5
15 6 (0.43%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.43%) Palo Alto